There is one additional step required when partitioning a hard drive for
Red Hat Linux/SPARC. You must create the third partition of every disk as type
"Whole Disk," spanning from cylinder 0 to the end of the disk.
It shouldn't be used in any way, but it must exist. You can still
create other partitions as you normally would.
Note that this partition will already exist on any disk that has been
used under SunOS or Solaris. If you are partitioning a new disk, you
can use fdisk's s command to
create a standard disk label (which includes the whole-disk partition).
If you don't like the size of the other partitions created by
s, you can delete those partitions and recreate them
with the sizes you want.
 | Please Note |
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| | In Red Hat Linux/SPARC 6.2, Disk Druid can be used to initialize disk
labels on a SPARC. Disk Druid no longer uses the third partition slot
for non-whole disk partitions and automatically creates the whole disk
partition if the third partition slot is free.
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